View the objects hogging memory in aspnet_wp.exe?

[thejeffross]

Is there any tool out there that will let me see the type, number, and
size in bytes of objects on the heap in the ASP.Net process?

 

[Scott Allen]

Yes, there are a couple tools.

CLR Profiler [1] can display the heaps and show you the relative
number and the types on objects on the heap.

WinDbg [2] with SOS.dll can dump the entire heap, and show you the
address and type of every object on the heap. Quite powerful, but a
bit of a leaning curve (not much if you just want to dump the heap).
Googlel for WinDbg and SOS and you'll find a few tutorials. The most
recent version from January also includes shortcut commands to dump
the asp.net cache and other features.

[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...52-D7F4-4AEB-9B7A-94635BEEBDDA&displaylang=en

[2]
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/

HTH,